If we are so lucky for it to be true, maybe we will also be fortunate enough for them to clean up the mess that has become Innoventions Plaza as well rethink the entry gardens....dreams really CAN come true...

Nice PS job ! Almost had me fooled until I looked at the larger pic and saw the clone stamp line on the ball.

As for the Hat at D/MGM, it's there because of Disney not wanting to pay royalties to MGM for the use of it in pictures. The photo pass photographers can't even take pictures with even a corner of the Great movie Ride building in the background.

The year of a million dreams...ahh...now THIS would be an amazing dream come true. I would fly down to FL and throw a party in between those wretched personalized space rock things, and just bask in the glory of that hideous wand being removed.

We need to hire a choreographer and just show up at the park doing our own celebratory dance. I say it should be in the form of We Are Here to Change the World from Captain EO. The other Guests would think it's part of the show, but the CMs would be totally creeped out. Either way, what a historic moment that would become.

You people are hilarious - but FigmentJedi's comment was the best... "Needs to have an inset of Dreamfinder and Figment on the Dreammobile actually shooting it down. Only way that could be even sweeter."I love this. I can totally picture it, and it makes me crack up. To PhotoShop, someone with better skills than I!

You know, I'll be going to EPCOT sometime in the next few weeks, and I'm thinking about taking pictures of this monstrosity for the first time - all the while relishing the fact that the pictures may well be part of WDW history. So I have something to mock along with the Magic Kingdom Cake.

It seems that Sorcerer Mickey keeps misplacing his accessories. First, he loses his hat at MGM studios. He then left his wand at Epcot. Is his robe going to be now draped over the Tree of Life? Or his ears perched over Cinderella Castle?

>> >>It seems that Sorcerer Mickey keeps misplacing his accessories. First, he loses his hat at MGM studios. He then left his wand at Epcot.<<

Altzheimer's? <<

Gosh, you're right. It must be that. The mouse just pushed over fifty anyway. It makes sense that he can't remember squat. He is even forgetting birthdays already-that's why there's no 25th clebration over at EPCOT.

Thank God the ruined photos will end sometimes the best medicine is bad medicine..

To use Bon Jovi "Bad medicine is what i need."

I know that the hat is in front of the Chinese theatre STILL, but other than Disney wanting to save money on the postcards of MGM Studios that they sell is there any other reason that it too has to remain to destroy photographs everywhere??

Just made a Photoshop based on my own comment and put it on my Deviantart. http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/49571367/I'd like to see some better executed ones though, especially from smilee, considering he wanted to do it.

Words fail me... I actually have a small elite cadre of recruits who take the time during every visit to EPCOT to leap up into the planters to kick the base, in the hopes that we can eventually loosen a bolt! I couldn't dream of expressing my joy at its actual destruction...

One thing, though... As for this comment:"As for the Hat at D/MGM, it's there because of Disney not wanting to pay royalties to MGM for the use of it in pictures."

This simply isn't true, I'm sorry... I know it's another in a series of convincing-sounding rumours, but it isn't the case. For a start, MGM doesn't own any rights to Grauman's Chinese! LOL... Just wait four more years, you'll see...

This simply isn't true, I'm sorry... I know it's another in a series of convincing-sounding rumours, but it isn't the case.

we're getting our rumours crossed, I'm afraid. I worked at MGM over the summer and was told that was the case, it's just that the original commenter had one fact wrong - it's not MGM they'd need to pay royalties to. the Chinese Theatre changed hands in the past few years, from Grauman to Mann's, and now belongs (I believe?) to WB/Paramount. you can imagine Disney not wanting to shell out to WB, eh?

Well the article just says a Disney represenative said that all of the changes will be the inside. We have no clue what part of the company this represenative is from. They may not know all of the plans.

"Well the article just says a Disney represenative said that all of the changes will be the inside. We have no clue what part of the company this represenative is from. They may not know all of the plans".

I hope you are right. I was just going by what the article said:

"Spaceship Earth's overhaul is not expected to affect the controversial, giant Mickey Mouse arm and wand structure that was added in 1999. The structure has been the target of heated criticism from some Epcot fans who say it clashes with the park's architecture.

I know I'm in a minority here, but I actually like the wand. Before anybody asks, yes, I have seen Spaceship Earth before the wand was put up, it was during the mid-90's I think.

Then I was there in 2000, during the Millennium Celebration so obviously I saw the wand when it said "2000". I loved it and it was exciting to bring in the new millennium, now that they decided to keep it there and I'm perfectly fine with that.

I think it brings that bit of "Disney magic" to Epcot. There's not really much else I can say, I like it probably because it's a nostalgia feeling with me last being there in 2000. Like I said, I know I'm in a minority with opinions about the wand, but I like it and I always will.

I like the wand as well. I think that if it is removed it will make EPCOT look bare. I think that the wand is a nice addition because it does bring the magic and Wizardry of Disney to Epcot. It makes the park a recognizeable part of Disney's legacy.

Epcot Vice President Jim MacPhee announced this morning that the time has come to remove the structure, which has served both as a colorful, lighted Epcot sign since 2000, and as a lightning rod for criticism from Epcot purists who contended the image was out of character for Epcot's architecture."